[172720] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Feedback Requested: Routing Resilience Manifesto
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Wed Jul 2 14:43:38 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>
In-Reply-To: <53B44BEE.8010009@cox.net>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2014 14:38:11 -0400
To: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Jul 2, 2014, at 2:14 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> On 7/2/2014 1:00 PM, Jared Mauch wrote:
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>> On Jul 2, 2014, at 1:52 PM, William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
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>>> People will notice you streaking across a football field. They won't
>>> pay the slightest attention to what you have to say but they sure =
will
>>> notice you. Shall we organize a naked routing run?
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>> No, but how else do you suggest we work to address these problems?
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> I am no longer active in the field, but back in the day, the ways of =
successfully selling stuff to management involved some mix of:
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> It will improve sales.
> It will reduce costs.
> It will allow you to do something you want to do.
> It will keep you out of court and jail.
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> No variation "It is the right thing to do" ever worked unless =
management thought of it.
For $dayjob, automation (marketing term: SDN) has let us attain all of =
the above, including the ability to roll out fixes promptly and =
predictably.
How we can encourage other actors to raise the bar is what I'm hoping =
occurs. Similar to Gert and his "Have you turned on IPv6 on something =
today" quote, did you contribute to the stability and security of the =
internet today? Sometimes it's tiny incremental work, but over time =
it's additive to make things better. Toyota has a concept of continual =
improvement in their processes, how can we improve?
- Jared=
